And where she discovers something else that will change her life forever - if she survives. Where she feels such a strong attraction to a man with danger in his face that she cannot speak to him. A base where tensions run high, where the hostile environment traps them and where the distance means no one has a past. And nothing has prepared her for the close confines of a small base shared with eight men and one other woman. Little does she expect the strangeness of a place coloured blue and white, lit by an unearthly permanent sunlight. Alice accepts an invitation to go in Margaret's place to the southernmost point of the Earth and stay there for months, away from the world that has let her down. Alice's mother, Margaret Mather, is famous as an adventuring anthropologist, one of the first women in Antarctica many years before. In her 30s, childless, tied to Oxford by her work, it is time to break away. But when her relationship with Oxford artist Peter Brown collapses spectacularly, she is forced to evaluate her own life for the first time. if she survives.An epic love story and adventure set against the harsh, beautiful background of Antarctica.Īlice is a scientist: she relies on method, precision, proof. And it is in Antartica that she discovers something else that will change her life forever. But there is a jolt of recognition between Alice and Rooker that is like nothing she has ever known. The isolation wipes out everyone's past, and tension crackles in the air. Nothing has prepared her for the beauty of it, or the claustrophobia of a tiny base shared with eight men and one other woman. Alice discovers an ice-blue and silver world, lit by sunlight. He has taken a job working on the same small Antarctic research station. He's been running since his childhood in New Zealand.

Then, with her relationship suddenly in pieces, she accepted an invitation to join a group working at the end of the earth: Antarctica. Six weeks earlier her life was comfortably unfolding in an Oxford summer. Instead of the familiar measurable world, everything that lies ahead of her is unknown and unpredictable. But now she stands alone on the deck of a rickety Chilean ship as a stark landscape reveals itself. Īn epic love story and adventure set against the harsh, beautiful background of Antarctica. Then, with her relationship suddenly in pieces, she accepted an.

An epic love story and adventure set against the harsh, beautiful background of Antarctica.

Sun at Midnight by Rosie Thomas